seth, I figured out what was going on. Somewhere along the way, the system was upgraded to python 2.3 as the default version, yet wasn't the rpm version. I pointed to the 2.2 version and it all worked fine. Thanks for your help. Mike seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 16:03, Mike Jarrett wrote: > All, > > Yum looks like it will be a great tool, if I could just get it to > work. I have a pretty standard linux configuration: > > #uname -a > Linux u15158286.onlinehome-server.com 2.4.25-040218 #1 SMP Wed Feb 18 > 17:59:29 CET 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux > > yum seemed to install fine and I believe that I have all the pieces: > type this: python at the prompt type: import rpm tell me what it outputs -sv _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.dulug.duke.edu/mailman/listinfo/yum Michael Jarrett office: 415-954-8570 cell: 415-608-3570 pyJarrett Consulting www.jarrettconsulting.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20041021/83032408/attachment.htm